Skip Montanaro <skip.montan...@gmail.com> writes: > ... > I still need timers, and for the moment I'm stuck with this package's event > loop. What options do I have?
If the activities are really run in separate threads (such that an event processing can take arbitrary time without much affecting the processing of other events) and "select.select" is available on your platform (e.g. some *nix* platform), you might be able to use its "timeout" parameter. This is particularly useful when what you want to timeout are I/O operations. If what you want to timeout are not I/O operations, you can have a look at "threading.Timer". It uses a separate thread, lets it wait a specified time and then starts a specified function, unless "cancel"ed. In this case, you must find some way to abort a pending event processing due to a timeout and let the timer function use it for abortion. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
